HHB welcomes Maurizio Franzini - Professor of Economic Policy at the University of Rome "La Sapienza" - as a HHB Fellow.
He is Director of the PhD School of Economics at the University of Rome "La Sapienza"; director of CIRET, The Interuniversity Research Center "Ezio Tarantelli"; Director of the online journal Menabò di Etica e Economia; coordinator of the Research Area "Economy-Environment Interaction" of the European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy.
His current research interests include inequality and redistribution in advanced countries, economic institutions and well-being, cooperation and reciprocity, environmental policies.
HHB welcomes Tindara Addabbo - Associate Professor of Economic Policy at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy - as a HHB Fellow.
Prof. Addabbo is member of CAPP (Centre for the Analysis of Public Policies), RECent (Center for Economic Research), of the Scientific Committee of the Fondazione Marco Biagi, of the European Gender Budgeting Network and of the International Network on Leave Policies and Research. She publishes in the areas of the gender impact of public and social policies, measurement of well-being in the capability approach, time allocation, employment and wage discrimination by gender, income distribution and quality of work.
Amongst other publications and essays, she has coedited "Gender Inequalities, Households and the Production of Well-Being in Modern Europe", (with M.P. Arrizabalaga, C. Borderías and A. Owens), II volume in "Gender and Well Being" series, 2010, and has recently published "Gender differences in Italian children’s capabilities" (coauthors M. L. Di Tommaso, A. Maccagnan) Feminist Economics, 2014.
Each year The British Academy makes a small number of awards to scholars in the social sciences and humanities whose work has been of special note. Today the Academy has announced the winners of the 2015 edition.
Dr. Brian A'Hearn (HHB Co-Investigator, Fellow and Tutor in Economics at the Pembroke College, University of Oxford) has been awarded with the Serena Medal for Italian Economics, for his reputation in, and contribution to the study of Italian economic history.
Dr. A’Hearn has made a number of contributions to understanding Italian economic development in the long run, especially in its regional aspects. These have ranged widely and include the location of the cotton textile industry, the health of Italian children as revealed by their adult statures, the role of cooperative banks in regional economies, and the ways in which Italy’s external trade affected its internal economic geography. Among his current projects are a studies of cognitive ability measured by the accuracy of self-reported ages, the politics of local primary school provision, and a comparison of poverty in Italy and in Edwardian Britain as estimated from household budgets.
The Serena Medal was endowed by Mr. Arthur Serena after Great Britain's alliance with Italy in the First World War, to be awarded annually ‘for eminent services towards the furtherance of the study of Italian history, literature, art or economics'.
Click here to see the full list of the 2015 award winners on The British Academy website.
HHB welcomes Adolfo Scotto di Luzio - Associate Professor of History of Pedagogy at the University of Bergamo, Italy - as a HHB Fellow.
Historian of the contemporary age, since 2014 he is also Full Professor at the European module "Jean Monnet" on European Policies on Education and Training at the University of Bergamo. He is part of the Advisory Board of Contenuti, which is projecting M9, museum of the Twentieth Century, for the Italian Fondazione di Venezia. For the Italian Ministry of Education, Universities and Research between 2010 and 2011 he has designed and coordinated, as member of the Scientific Committee, the portal of the Risorgimento, as part of the celebrations for the 150th anniversary of the Italian Unity.
For the same Ministry in 2014 he was member of the Scientific Committee that designed and prepared the initiative "One hundred years after the Great War", and personally oversaw the publication of the first of the three volumes of «Materiali per conoscere, capire, ricordare», Il mondo nella tormenta (1914-1918). In 2013, he was auditor ANVUR for the VQR. His most important books are published by Il Mulino. In 2013 he published "La scuola che vorrei" (Mondadori). Forthcoming (Il Mulino, October 2015), his latest book Senza educazione. I rischi della scuola 2.0.
HHB welcomes Faustine Perrin - Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Economic History at the Lund University School of Economics and Management, Sweden - as a HHB Researcher.
She received her PhD in Economics from the University of Strasbourg (France) and from the Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies (Pisa, Italy) in 2013. Her research interests focus on understanding and explaining the mechanisms underlying the long-run processes of economic and demographic developments – with a particular emphasis on the role played by women empowerment and gender equality.